On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Buck appears knowledgable, isn't offensive, and basically > doesn't challenge the status quo at all. McCarver's still there > because Fox is too damn lazy to fire him. > > This, at its core, is the conflict that has engulfed sports as a whole > for the past 20 years. The big money is in the casual fan. How do you > tap it and not alienate the "hard-core" ones (and I put that in quotes > because it's hard for me to think about how you'd define that level)? > Buck, Vitale, Berman strike that line, without being so bad as to > chase off either group (you may not like them, but as Mr Wolper noted > on this thread, you don't throw your hands up and turn a game off > because one of them has the call). > I am not a Buck fan, but I hate him less than I used to, as he or I get older. Vitale and Berman on the other hand do have the capacity to make me tune them out. I never watch Vitale do a college basketball game anymore, and if he did the March Madness I probably would actively avoid his games. Berman may be the worst play be play guy to ever consistently work on a major national sports telecast, and I only watch him when I absolutely have to. One of the things I love about NBC's SNF package is that it saved me from watching Berman's atrocious act on Primetime. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
